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Attention Seeking by Adam Phillips
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting- on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$26.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Darwin's Worms by Phillips Adam
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Going Sane by Adam Phillips
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Volumes have been dedicated to madness, but sanity is rarely mentioned. We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In Going Sane, psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history, philosophy, literature and his own experiences to address questions that we rarely ask about our ...Show more
Going Sane by Adam Phillips
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
For the last 300 years we have had elaborate descriptions of madness, but no comparable descriptions of sanity. Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips looks at money, sex, childhood and other aspects of life, suggesting what a sane approach to these might be.
HOUDINIS BOX THE ART OF ESCAPE by PHILLIPS ADAM
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In Writing by Adam Phillips
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an essential place, as both precursors and unofficial collaborators in the psychoanalytic project. But the same has never held true in reverse. What, Phillips wonders, at the start of this deeply engaging book ...Show more
In Writing by Adam Phillips
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an essential place, as both precursors and unofficial collaborators in the psychoanalytic project. But the same has never held true in reverse. What, Phillips wonders, at the start of this deeply engaging book ...Show more
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
All of us lead two parallel lives: the life we actually live and the one that we wish for and fantasise about. And this life unlived (the one that never actually happens, the one we might be living but for some reason are not) can occupy an extraordinary part of our mental life. We share our lives, in a ...Show more
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam Phillips. We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt us. In Missing Out acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips delves ...Show more
Monogamy by Adam Phillips
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good